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most citedOverall Dynamic Constitutive Relations of Micro-structured Elastic Composites

115 citations · 329 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016

Two-dimensional Phononic Crystals with Acoustic-Band Negative Refraction

Hossein Sadeghi, Sia Nemat-Nasser

A two-dimensional phononic crystal (PC) can exhibit longitudinal-mode negative energy refraction on its lowest (acoustical) frequency pass band. The effective elastodynamic propert…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016★ 1 cited

Acoustic Filter Design Using Temperature Tuning

Hossein Sadeghi, A. Srivastava, A. V. Amirkhizi +1

The material properties selection for designing acoustic filters with optimal performance over a range of frequencies requires considerable effort to fabricate and test laboratory…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2014★ 1 cited

Optimal Design of Layered Periodic Composites for Mitigation of Impact-Induced Elastic Waves

Hossein Sadeghi, Sia Nemat-Nasser

A systematic method for optimal design of layered periodic composites for mitigation of impact-induced shock waves is presented. Frequency spectrum of a pulse with a sharp rise-tim…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2014★ 64 cited

On the Limit and Applicability of Dynamic Homogenization

Ankit Srivastava, Sia Nemat-Nasser

Recent years have seen considerable research success in the field of dynamic homogenization which seeks to define frequency dependent effective properties for heterogeneous composi…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2014★ 17 cited

Mixed-variational formulation for phononic band-structure calculation of arbitrary unit cells

Ankit Srivastava, Sia Nemat-Nasser

This paper presents phononic band-structure calculation results obtained using a mixed variational formulation for 1-, and 2-dimensional unit cells. The formulation itself is prese…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2014★ 36 cited

Anti-plane Shear Waves in Layered Composites: Band Structure and Anomalous Wave-refraction

Sia Nemat-Nasser

For oblique anti-plane shear waves in periodic layered elastic composites, it is shown that negative energy refraction is accompanied by positive phase-velocity refraction and posi…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2012★ 12 cited

Bounds on Effective Dynamic Properties of Elastic Composites

Sia Nemat-Nasser, Ankit Srivastava

We present general, computable, improvable, and rigorous bounds for the total energy of a finite heterogeneous volume element or a periodically distributed unit cell of an elastic…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2011

Universal Theorems for Total Energy of the Dynamics of Linearly Elastic Heterogeneous Solids

Ankit Srivastava, Sia Nemat-Nasser

In this paper we consider a sample of a linearly elastic heterogeneous composite in elastodynamic equilibrium and present universal theorems which provide lower bounds for the tota…

math-ph2011★ 83 cited

Overall Dynamic Properties of 3-D periodic elastic composites

Ankit Srivastava, Sia Nemat-Nasser

A method for the homogenization of 3-D periodic elastic composites is presented. It allows for the evaluation of the averaged overall frequency dependent dynamic material constitut…

math-ph2011★ 115 cited

Overall Dynamic Constitutive Relations of Micro-structured Elastic Composites

Sia Nemat-Nasser, Ankit Srivastava

A method for homogenization of a heterogeneous (finite or periodic) elastic composite is presented. It allows direct, consistent, and accurate evaluation of the averaged overall fr…